hawl: [quote author=sudas link=board=meetgreet;num=1060697171;start=0#7 date=08/16/03 at 13:35:28]
One of the reasons I gave up buying porn was the notion that my pleasure may be paying people to expose themselves to incurable disease.[/quote]
Not to mention the possibility that the girls may be violently coerced, especially if there is any connection to Eastern Europe. Some are certainly more "dysfunctional" than a typical Springer guest, with state-of-the-art addictions, neuroses/pathologies, and horrible families/backgrounds. On the other hand, look at all the problems associated with booze, and how outlawing it was the best thing that ever happened to organized crime, not just economically but in terms of P.R. (can you say "victimless crime"?). If you repress and ghettoize something, like America does with anything even resembling porn, that's gonna increase its nasty side effects, but the "oldest profession" ain't necessarily gonna disappear. I could rant on, but I'll close by reiterating my lifelong abhorrence of the fundamentalist Baptist political agenda, now and in the past (look it up, it was them and forces like their then-powerful brethren the Klan that pushed Prohibition, that wasn't dreamed up at some Hollywood or New York cocktail party).